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A Very Deadly Game, Telly Savalas Kojak #6
by Miller, Victor B.
If you miss the specific brand of 1970s New York grit that defined the Kojak era, this installment delivers exactly that. It drops you straight into a high-stakes investigation where the lines between the law and the city's darker impulses blur. The narrative moves fast, relying on sharp, cynical dialogue and a protagonist who knows that justice is rarely clean or easy. You get the sense of a man walking a tightrope, balancing a conspiracy that goes deeper than the precinct walls with the immediate pressure of a ticking clock. It is a lean, mean procedural that skips the fluff, favoring atmosphere and street-level tension instead. Pick this up if you enjoy hard-boiled detectives who operate on instinct and prefer their crime fiction served with a side of urban decay and moral ambiguity.
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